October 26 Essence of Time unit in Donbass report (with map)

In the evening Ukrainian military opened fire at Zaytsevo, Shyrokaya Balka and Krasny Partizan villages on Gorlovka direction. The battle in the area of Shyrokaya Balka continues for several hours. Ukrainian army is firing grenade launchers, mortars and small arms. Ukrainian recon drones were spotted in the sky.

In the evening Ukrainian military started shelling Yasinovataya checkpoint, Avdeevka industrial zone and the area of the airport, “Volvo-Center” and Trudovskie village. The enemy is firing mortars, IFV guns, grenade launchers and small arms. A house on Anosova street caught fire in Trudovskie village.

Ukrainian army is firing mortars and large-caliber machine guns at Sakhanka village and its outskirts.

DPR recon registered arrival of two “Gvozdika” self-propelled artillery guns to Kurakhovka area, as well as the positions of two mortars near Krasnogorovka. It has been established that over 35 Ukrainian servicemen were delivered to Ukrainian hospitals with injuries of varying degrees of severity.

According to updated information, on October 25 Armed Forces of Ukraine violated the ceasefire 278 times, including 182 times by firing artillery at frontline areas of DPR. Ozeryanovka, Zaytsevo, Zheleznaya Balka near Gorlovka, Yasinovataya, Spartak, Trudovskie and Aleksandrovka south-west of Donetsk, Yelenovka near Dokuchaevsk, Sakhanka in the south of DPR were shelled. Two elderly women were injured in Trudovskie village. Five houses were damaged in Aleksandrovka.